Be­laru­sian Rail­ways is ac­quir­ing the new equip­ment due to the ev­er­in­creas­ing flow of tran­sit through Be­larus. The BCG-1 lo­co­mo­tive of the 9600kw ca­pac­ity is able to train cars weigh­ing 7500 tonnes or more.

By the way, the freight elec­tric lo­co­mo­tive was de­vel­oped by the Chi­nese com­pany in part­ner­ship with the France’s Al­stom, one of the world’s lead­ing en­gi­neer­ing com­pa­nies. It is fully com­pli­ant with Euro­pean stan­dards.